A cultural history of causality : science, murder novels, and systems of thought /
Kern, Stephen.
A cultural history of causality : science, murder novels, and systems of thought / Stephen Kern. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2004. - 1 online resource (437 pages) - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-423) and index.
Ancestry -- Childhood -- Language -- Sexuality -- Emotion -- Mind -- Society -- Ideas.
This pioneering work is the first to trace how our understanding of the causes of human behavior has changed radically over the course of European and American cultural history since 1830. Focusing on the act of murder, as documented vividly by more than a hundred novels including Crime and Punishment, An American Tragedy, The Trial, and Lolita, Stephen Kern devotes each chapter of A Cultural History of Causality to examining a specific causal factor or motive for murder--ancestry, childhood, language, sexuality, emotion, mind, society, and ideology. In addition to drawing on particular novels.
9781400826230 (electronic bk.) 1400826233 (electronic bk.) (alk. paper) 9780691115238 0691115230 9780691127682 (print) 0691127689 (print)
22573/cttskfp JSTOR
1800-1999
Causation in literature.
Murder in literature.
Causation.
Fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Causalité dans la littérature.
Meurtre dans la littérature.
Roman--Histoire et critique.--19e siècle
PHILOSOPHY--Epistemology.
HISTORY--Historiography.
Causation.
Causation in literature.
Fiction.
Murder in literature.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PN56.C38 / K47 2004eb
809/.93384 122
A cultural history of causality : science, murder novels, and systems of thought / Stephen Kern. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2004. - 1 online resource (437 pages) - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-423) and index.
Ancestry -- Childhood -- Language -- Sexuality -- Emotion -- Mind -- Society -- Ideas.
This pioneering work is the first to trace how our understanding of the causes of human behavior has changed radically over the course of European and American cultural history since 1830. Focusing on the act of murder, as documented vividly by more than a hundred novels including Crime and Punishment, An American Tragedy, The Trial, and Lolita, Stephen Kern devotes each chapter of A Cultural History of Causality to examining a specific causal factor or motive for murder--ancestry, childhood, language, sexuality, emotion, mind, society, and ideology. In addition to drawing on particular novels.
9781400826230 (electronic bk.) 1400826233 (electronic bk.) (alk. paper) 9780691115238 0691115230 9780691127682 (print) 0691127689 (print)
22573/cttskfp JSTOR
1800-1999
Causation in literature.
Murder in literature.
Causation.
Fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Causalité dans la littérature.
Meurtre dans la littérature.
Roman--Histoire et critique.--19e siècle
PHILOSOPHY--Epistemology.
HISTORY--Historiography.
Causation.
Causation in literature.
Fiction.
Murder in literature.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PN56.C38 / K47 2004eb
809/.93384 122